If you are interested in graphic design, then following the news in the graphic design field is definitely something you should do as I already illustrated in one of the previous posts on this blog.
Well, the news piece of the day is an interesting one and it concerns a technology known as Multitouch. If [...]
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August 27th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
I get a lot of questions from people about graphic design and one question that I hear a lot has to do with the money it takes to start up a graphic design business. Whether you are doing web design graphics, setting out to design your own graphics for a big company or just [...]
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August 25th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
In Photoshop, there are two aspects to fixing an image and making it ready for further editing. The first was covered in the previous post and the second is covered below.
A large portion of the final viewing of an image has to do with colour. The specific colours of an image combined with [...]
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August 24th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
Once you have the basics of layer mechanics down, it is now time to correct the basics of the image that did not turn out the way you expected. Photoshop is a powerful piece of image editing software that allows you to go a long way towards making the mistakes in your picture vanish [...]
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August 22nd, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
If you are truly interested in expanding your horizons as far as they can go in the field of graphic design, one thing you must do is constantly keep your eye on the ball as far as news in the field of graphic design is concerned. This is important whether you want to design [...]
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August 20th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
Now that you have a brand new Photoshop document that is ready to be manipulated to whatever end you have in mind, it is time to start using one of the basic yet powerful concepts included in Photoshop. This is the layer function and if used correctly it is one of the most powerful [...]
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August 17th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
The first step for any image is to successfully get that image into a Photoshop session and then convert it to a file format that you can more easily manipulate using the tools within Photoshop.
The first part of that equation should be relatively easy. Simply select the open option from the file menu in [...]
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August 15th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
The alliterative title aside, this is a very serious topic that you should pay the utmost attention to, both when you read these posts and apply the knowledge in your own Photoshop sessions.
The main idea behind Photoshop photo preparation is the fact that the while a picture might look good once you take it, the [...]
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August 13th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
Of all of the different ways that exist in Photoshop to change the general parameters of the picture while leaving it largely intact, filtering and blending allow now only for the greatest amount of freedom, but also the greatest amount of experimentation. You can grab your favourite picture and experiment for hours with these [...]
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August 12th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire
The grid of thirds aside, there are many different ways of creating focus within a picture that are far more direct. With the power of a program like Adobe Photoshop behind you, there are many different ways of creating focus that take a small amount of time and return a very impressive effect.
One such [...]
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August 9th, 2008 by Justin Lemaire